Partner
Location
New Orleans, LA
Practice Areas
- Civil Litigation
- General Casualty Litigation
- Insurance Coverage
- Insurance Fraud Investigations
- Personal Injury
- Premises Liability
- Professional Liability
- Transportation
- Workers' Compensation Litigation
Jurisdictions
- Louisiana
James W. Hailey III has assisted his insurance and corporate clients in detecting, defeating and deterring fraud for over a decade. He has handled numerous first and third party fraud/bad faith claims, including trucking/transportation staged accidents, passenger stuffing incidents, uninsured motorist defense, suspicious slip and fall and other bodily injury claims, false builder’s risk claims, insurance coverage issues, fire cause and origin investigation, illegal practice of law by public adjusters, material misrepresentations, collusion and theft.
Mr. Hailey’s SIU work includes the investigation of the illegal corporate practice of medicine, which has resulted in guilty findings and the forced closings of several medical corporations in Louisiana. He has helped several clients in pursuing civil claims against the administers and owners of these medical corporations, seeking restitution from the corporations as well as individual claimants by various theories of liability, i.e., fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, federal RICO statutes, unjust enrichment and the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act, among others.
Additionally, Mr. Hailey's practice includes defending errors and omissions claims against directors and officers. Mr. Hailey is experienced in handling cases involving workers’ compensation, environmental litigation, professional errors and omissions malpractice, toxic tort, lemon law and redhibition, warranty, consumer protection, food-borne illness, general tort litigation, general casualty, civil DWI, and punitive damages.
Mr. Hailey is admitted to practice in all courts in the State of Louisiana, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Mr. Hailey has made numerous seminar presentations to clients’ special investigation units (SIU) and to industry personnel, including the Insurance Services Office, National Insurance Crime Bureau and IASIU Chapters, among others.
Clients
Insurance Clients - American Family Insurance Group, Zurich NA, Underwriters at Lloyd's of London, MetLife Auto & Home, Louisiana Farm Bureau, American National Property and Casualty, State Farm Insurance Companies, Chubb, The Republic Group, Metropolitan Direct Insurance Company, State Auto Insurance Company, Unitrin Financial Indemnity Company, Esurance Insurance Company, Maryland Casualty Company, First Premium Insurance Group, RSUI Insurance Group, Inc., Assurance Company of America, Economy Premier Assurance Company, Great West Casualty Company, Landmark American Insurance Company, Huey Littleton Group, Federal, Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association.
Corporate Clients - Estes Express Lines, Crete Carrier Corporation, Anderson Trucking Service, Inc., Transportation Claims, Inc., Gallagher-Bassett, U.S. Adjustment Corp., National Football League, Pey-Dirt, Inc., Risk Enterprise Management, West Jefferson Medical Center.
Professional Activities and Honors
Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Student Trial Advocacy Competition Judge
AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Blue Goose - Claims Adjusters Organization, President 2002-2003
Defense Research Institute, Lawyers’ Professionalism and Ethics Committee
International Association of Defense Counsel
Jefferson Bar Association
Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
Louisiana Claims Association
Louisiana Professional Brokers and Associates, Founding Member
Louisiana State Bar Association, Public Access and Consumer Protection (Illegal Practice of Law) Committee
Louisiana State Bar Association, Insurance and Tort Sections
Louisiana State Bar Examination, Assistant Bar Examiner, Torts Section
Louisiana State Bar Foundation, Fellow
New Orleans Bar Association, Insurance Law Committee
New Orleans Bar Association Inn Of Court
New Orleans Claims Association, Board of Directors
St. Thomas More Catholic Lawyers Association
"Top Lawyers 2009" List Member, published by New Orleans Magazine
Transportation Lawyers Association
Education
J.D., Loyola University, 1994
-- Member, Thomas More Inn of Court (13 selected)
-- Student Practitioner, Law Clinic - Tax Litigation
-- Participant, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
-- Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
B.S., Economics, Loyola University, 1990
State Certified Real Estate Agent, Louisiana, 1987
Jesuit High School, 1984
Mr. Hailey’s SIU work includes the investigation of the illegal corporate practice of medicine, which has resulted in guilty findings and the forced closings of several medical corporations in Louisiana. He has helped several clients in pursuing civil claims against the administers and owners of these medical corporations, seeking restitution from the corporations as well as individual claimants by various theories of liability, i.e., fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, federal RICO statutes, unjust enrichment and the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act, among others.
Additionally, Mr. Hailey's practice includes defending errors and omissions claims against directors and officers. Mr. Hailey is experienced in handling cases involving workers’ compensation, environmental litigation, professional errors and omissions malpractice, toxic tort, lemon law and redhibition, warranty, consumer protection, food-borne illness, general tort litigation, general casualty, civil DWI, and punitive damages.
Mr. Hailey is admitted to practice in all courts in the State of Louisiana, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Mr. Hailey has made numerous seminar presentations to clients’ special investigation units (SIU) and to industry personnel, including the Insurance Services Office, National Insurance Crime Bureau and IASIU Chapters, among others.
Clients
Insurance Clients - American Family Insurance Group, Zurich NA, Underwriters at Lloyd's of London, MetLife Auto & Home, Louisiana Farm Bureau, American National Property and Casualty, State Farm Insurance Companies, Chubb, The Republic Group, Metropolitan Direct Insurance Company, State Auto Insurance Company, Unitrin Financial Indemnity Company, Esurance Insurance Company, Maryland Casualty Company, First Premium Insurance Group, RSUI Insurance Group, Inc., Assurance Company of America, Economy Premier Assurance Company, Great West Casualty Company, Landmark American Insurance Company, Huey Littleton Group, Federal, Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association.
Corporate Clients - Estes Express Lines, Crete Carrier Corporation, Anderson Trucking Service, Inc., Transportation Claims, Inc., Gallagher-Bassett, U.S. Adjustment Corp., National Football League, Pey-Dirt, Inc., Risk Enterprise Management, West Jefferson Medical Center.
Professional Activities and Honors
Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Student Trial Advocacy Competition Judge
AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Blue Goose - Claims Adjusters Organization, President 2002-2003
Defense Research Institute, Lawyers’ Professionalism and Ethics Committee
International Association of Defense Counsel
Jefferson Bar Association
Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
Louisiana Claims Association
Louisiana Professional Brokers and Associates, Founding Member
Louisiana State Bar Association, Public Access and Consumer Protection (Illegal Practice of Law) Committee
Louisiana State Bar Association, Insurance and Tort Sections
Louisiana State Bar Examination, Assistant Bar Examiner, Torts Section
Louisiana State Bar Foundation, Fellow
New Orleans Bar Association, Insurance Law Committee
New Orleans Bar Association Inn Of Court
New Orleans Claims Association, Board of Directors
St. Thomas More Catholic Lawyers Association
"Top Lawyers 2009" List Member, published by New Orleans Magazine
Transportation Lawyers Association
Education
J.D., Loyola University, 1994
-- Member, Thomas More Inn of Court (13 selected)
-- Student Practitioner, Law Clinic - Tax Litigation
-- Participant, Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
-- Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
B.S., Economics, Loyola University, 1990
State Certified Real Estate Agent, Louisiana, 1987
Jesuit High School, 1984
